Bocce? Mi piace! K. of C. helps build home court for MARCA

8:21 PM,
May 23, 2013

Nathaniel Sager of the MARCA Hawks team pitches a ball at the new bocce ball practice area at the Knights of Columbus facility on Center Street. Local MARCA bocce ball team members, who qualified for the state Special Olympics championship state tournament at The Ohio State University the last weekend in June, are Caitlyn Pickett, Kody Clark, Cara Allen and Terry Dunham.

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The new bocce ball court is a far cry from what the Marion County Special Olympics team is used to.

Until the Knights of Columbus built two pits for them to play in, the Hawks were practicing on a grass field. It worked, but it wasn't the 'autentico' way of playing the traditional Italian sport of bocce ball.

But when Tony Nicolosi, who is a member of MARCA's bocce ball team, approached his fellow Knights of Columbus about building a court, they couldn't say no. ...